A New Measure for Assessing the Public Health Response to a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak

Contact monitoring is an essential component of the public health response to a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, and is required for an effective quarantine to contain the epidemic. The timeliness of a quarantine is associated with its effectiveness. This paper provides a conce...

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Autor principal: Cho, Sung-il
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2015
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26639741
http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.069
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description Contact monitoring is an essential component of the public health response to a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, and is required for an effective quarantine to contain the epidemic. The timeliness of a quarantine is associated with its effectiveness. This paper provides a conceptual framework to describe the process of contact monitoring, and proposes a new measure called the “timely quarantined proportion” as a tool to assess the adequacy of a public health response.
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spelling pubmed-46766412015-12-21 A New Measure for Assessing the Public Health Response to a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak Cho, Sung-il J Prev Med Public Health Perspective Contact monitoring is an essential component of the public health response to a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, and is required for an effective quarantine to contain the epidemic. The timeliness of a quarantine is associated with its effectiveness. This paper provides a conceptual framework to describe the process of contact monitoring, and proposes a new measure called the “timely quarantined proportion” as a tool to assess the adequacy of a public health response. Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2015-11 2015-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4676641/ /pubmed/26639741 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.069 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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